" The minature world denys the moment of death by imposing the status of an eternal death" -Susan Stewart
We create tiny villages incased in glass, mounted under water - precious and untouchable. This reduction in size, these minute physical dimentions, correspond to an increase of significance. Just as Swift displayed in Gulliver, a longing to enter a society no larger than his own finger, the minature represents perfection, tiny and complex, it is a source of longing -a fostered yearing that begins in childhood as play and grows into adulthood as a surrogate that allows for imaginative occupation.
We create tiny villages incased in glass, mounted under water - precious and untouchable. This reduction in size, these minute physical dimentions, correspond to an increase of significance. Just as Swift displayed in Gulliver, a longing to enter a society no larger than his own finger, the minature represents perfection, tiny and complex, it is a source of longing -a fostered yearing that begins in childhood as play and grows into adulthood as a surrogate that allows for imaginative occupation.
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